Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One The General Organisation of Victualling the British Navy
- Part Two The Bases
- 4 The Victualling Board's Principal Bases
- 5 An Example of a Victualling Yard under the Jurisdiction of the Victualling Board: Plymouth, Satellite of British Logistical Power
- 6 Victualling in the Secondary Home Ports and in the Overseas Stations
- 7 An Example of Stations Managed by a Private Contractor in the Service of the Crown: The Caribbean Staging-Posts
- Part Three The Main Markets
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
- Other Works of Christian Buchet
6 - Victualling in the Secondary Home Ports and in the Overseas Stations
from Part Two - The Bases
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One The General Organisation of Victualling the British Navy
- Part Two The Bases
- 4 The Victualling Board's Principal Bases
- 5 An Example of a Victualling Yard under the Jurisdiction of the Victualling Board: Plymouth, Satellite of British Logistical Power
- 6 Victualling in the Secondary Home Ports and in the Overseas Stations
- 7 An Example of Stations Managed by a Private Contractor in the Service of the Crown: The Caribbean Staging-Posts
- Part Three The Main Markets
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
- Other Works of Christian Buchet
Summary
Unlike the primary yards which were placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Victualling Board, the Commissioners entrusted each secondary home or overseas port to a single contractor who had to be in a position to fulfil all and any demands for victuals made by the Royal Navy.
There were ten secondary home ports: Greenock, Whitehaven, Liverpool, Milford and Bristol on the west coast; Leith, Newcastle, Hull, Lynn and Yarmouth on the east coast. To these should be added five Irish ports – Londonderry (from September 1759), Belfast-Carrickfergus, Dublin, Waterford, Cork – and a dozen other overseas stations: in North America there was Louisburg (from July 1759), Quebec (from March 1761), Halifax in Nova Scotia, New York, and Charleston in South Carolina; in the West Indies, Barbados and the Leeward Islands, Jamaica and Havana (from October 1762); and finally Lisbon, Oporto, Madeira and Goree.
The methods of victualling at these bases will be examined first, and this will be followed by an examination of the suppliers and their competitors, and a geographical breakdown of the markets supplying them. These indices will reveal not only the nature but also the importance of commercial networks in ensuring that the system worked optimally. Lastly, the chapter will focus on a specific trader who played a major role in Royal Navy victualling: the London merchant John Biggin.
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- The British Navy, Economy and Society in the Seven Years War , pp. 105 - 132Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013